like you are suggesting that only players that are able to carry a team (almost) by them self to the playoffs. The consequense of this for most leagues wuld be that there are no worthy MVP players, but of course you might mean something else with the statement, even though I fail to see what you mean in that case.
Are you serious? Or are you just joking?
There is a huge difference between this; "A MVP should be able to carry his team to the playoffs" and this "There should only be a MVP if all players in the team except the MVP are terrible so that the team normally shouldn't be in the playoffs at all."
Sorry I was a little bit unclear. I am not saying that "There should only be a MVP if all players in the team except the MVP are terrible so that the team normally shouldn't be in the playoffs at all" (and if you read my post again I am confident that you will see that I am not saying that).
I am saying that I have no sush star player in my team. There is actually non that is really more valuble than the rest of my team. I have chosen to build a pretty evenly matched team so saying that a player in my team is partuclary valuable is kind of rindiculous, and saying that he is the one that adds most value to any team in my league is definetely not right even though I won it.
The most valuebale player is the player that adds most value to his team, thus candidates are:
1) Someone that carries his team to the victory
2) Someone that carries his team to the playoff
3) Someone that carries his team to a position where they avoid relegation
4) The guy that improved his team record the most
In that order. If there is no player from cathegory 1) and 2) then 3) should win if available, because he has clearly added more value to his player then someone that "just" improved his teams record.